CORDON, Guy, a Senator from Oregon; born in Cuero, De Witt County, Tex., April
24, 1890; moved to Roseburg, Oreg., and attended the public schools; deputy
assessor 1909-1916; county assessor of Douglas County, Oreg., 1917-1920; during
the First World War served as a private in the Field Artillery of the United
States Army; admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Roseburg,
Oreg.; district attorney of Douglas County 1923-1935; appointed on March 4,
1944, and subsequently elected on November 7, 1944, as a Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles L.
McNary; reelected in 1948 and served from March 4, 1944, to January 3, 1955;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954; chairman, Committee on Interior
and Insular Affairs (Eighty-third Congress); engaged in the practice of law in
Washington, D.C., until his retirement in 1962; died in Washington, D.C., June
8, 1969; interment in Roseburg Memorial Gardens, Roseburg, Oreg.